in his writing jefferson davis calls kentucky “the eldest daughter of virginia”, reminds me of various catholic writers referring to france as “the eldest daughter of the church”.
i am unfamiliar with how common that particular phrase is but interesting seeing it in both places as he apparently attended a catholic school, in kentucky, wherein he was allegedly the only protestant there.
for an extra bit of deep americana, many of us will be familiar with the simpsons running gag of not disclosing their state of residence. however in a “behind the scenes” episode of the simpsons (behind the laughter season 9[?]) they are described as a kentucky family:
while this is obviously a joke and non canonical, note that, though i have never been there, i noticed that the catholic school davis attended is in springfield kentucky, so it is possible that the leader of the c0nfederacy attended school in the town the simpsons live in (gm)
next esoteric americana roadtrip locked in. mormon temple in DC open house and the jefferson davis boyhood church. anything cool between these two locations. i have heard there is a radio wave free / cellphone wave free little area in west virginia.

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